https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/storm-erupts-over-wild-claims-of-ca...

Gordon wrote on Aug 8^th, 2026 at 10:33am:



https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/05/the-not-so-talented-mr-arday/

The latest blow to public trust arrives on the back of the Jason Arday affair. In 2025, Jack Grove, a journalist at Times Higher Education, was investigating allegations that the then Cambridge professor had plagiarised parts of his PhD, and contacted him to offer him the right of reply. In other words, a journalist in the higher-education sector was checking details and putting difficult questions to a prominent academic. In a sane democracy, that isn’t suspicious conduct – it is the job description of a journalist.

Yet soon afterwards, the Met opened an investigation into Grove on suspicion of ‘harassing’ the academic. Grove says officers also instructed him to make no further contact with Arday because his enquiries had affected the professor’s ‘mental health’.

But the Arday story gets worse. After four months, detectives concluded there was no case to answer. They contacted Grove in order to notify him that he was no longer under investigation, only to find out that nobody had initially informed him that he was under investigation – so they couldn’t even do that properly.

Such absurdity and ineptitude would be comic were they not so concerning. One might have thought that the police had enough to occupy their time without treating legitimate reporting as a case for detectives. But this is what institutional activism within the police looks like. Burglary and robbery are shrugged at, disorder tolerated, and yet a reporter asking awkward questions is apparently enough to trigger the machinery of the state. The message is brutally simple – offend the wrong sensibilities, trespass on the wrong protected terrain and the police will come knocking.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/08/the-polices-shameful-role-in-the-jason-...

Goodness, the fruitbat is really excited about this one, isn't he. Look at him go!

Meanwhile, those of us not driving hard from a dedicated angle just accept that this kind of thing happens, sadly ... has always happened ..since the very dawn of formal academia.

Why should it be restricted to white people?

mothra wrote on Aug 12^th, 2026 at 11:15am:



Silly bollocks, frightbat - no whitey gets promoted because he is a whitey.

But all the DEI 'community' gets promoted because they are DEI - tinted, sexually abberant/pronouned, disabled (physically or mentally). The more of these DEI characeristics you have the better your chances.  DEI is the "the land rights for gay whales" of our time.

Arday is a shining example of this madness and shows just how virulent it is in universities. Pascoe is another exmple.

mothra wrote on Aug 12^th, 2026 at 11:15am:

It's not. The stupidity goes all the way down and up.

Arday’s fall reveals how, even in our most elite universities, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) dogma has warped intellectual standards to the point of madness. Yet a deeper examination reveals poor Jason to be merely a poster boy for the increasingly fetid system that is British higher education.

Take the London School of Economics (LSE), which has produced 21 Nobel Prize winners, was ranked number one in the UK by the Times Good University Guide last year and is internationally acclaimed for its teaching on economics, finance and politics. However, all first-year students must now take LSE100, the university’s ‘flagship interdisciplinary course’. Students may choose to study one of three modest questions: ‘How can we transform our climate futures?’; ‘How can we control AI?’; or ‘How can we create a fair society?’.

LSE students who opt to study ‘How can we create a fair society?’ discover a course description asserting: ‘As the expanding billionaire class increasingly dominates political systems, while gender and ethnicity gaps widen, the question of how to reach a fairer world is both urgent and contentious.’ Even stranger than the courses are the people who teach them. Among them is Dr Alex Frankovitch, whose PhD thesis was entitled ‘*ucking and Being *ucked: Towards a Sexual Ethics of Sex on Drugs’. One student recalls asking Frankovitch about Warren Buffett, only to discover that they (to use Dr Frankovitch’s preferred pronoun) had never heard of him.


Dr Carolin Are, according to LSE’s website, a ‘digital criminologist… researcher-activist and content creator’ who won a Sexual Freedom Award in 2019. She gives lectures on reducing ‘online harms’ and ‘how we can control AI’. When not contemplating man’s struggle against machine, she is a pole-dancer and instructor. The website linked to her university profile contains her showreel and invites visitors to ‘learn a pole dance choreography, pole tricks, floorwork or twerk with me via Zoom!’ Sadly, Friedrich Hayek, the father of modern free-market economics, did not offer similar services when he taught at LSE.

One of her most recent papers is called ‘“Sexy jail” and performative transparency: Evaluating shadowbanning notifications and appeals in Instagram’s Account Status amongst pole dancing content creators’. It examines the treatment of pole dancers, ‘a demographic greatly affected by algorithmic precarity in the creator economy’, and concludes that Instagram’s system has been ‘ineffective and discriminatory’. An important finding, no doubt, but is such material what LSE students signed up for?

It would be comforting to dismiss all this as an eccentricity peculiar to the LSE. But so many universities across the country are wasting student time in much the same way. At Exeter, you can study for an MA and PhD in magic and occult science. At Liverpool, you can pay £6,850 a year to do an MA in ‘The Beatles, heritage and culture’. At Falmouth, students can undertake a BA in ‘Esports & Livestreaming’ at the university’s ‘renowned Games Academy’.

Students of global sustainable development have previously had the chance to enrol in a ‘surviving the apocalypse’ module at Warwick. Given the growing instability of the world, that may sound potentially useful. Yet the syllabus suggests projects on ‘mushrooms and zombies’ and insists the course has a ‘subtle (?) but unmasked convenor neurodiversity (ADHD) guiding its set-up and delivery’. I’m not sure I’m sufficiently neurodiverse to understand what that means.
Students on all these courses are eligible for undergraduate or postgraduate loans. It’s impossible to know what percentage of that financial support will ever be repaid to the taxpayer.

And it’s not as if prudent students can escape the madness by pursuing more conventional subjects. Those studying English and comparative literary studies at Warwick, for instance, can pick up 15 credits by studying a module on ‘Queering the Literary Landscape: LGBTQ+ Literature and Culture in the Contemporary World’. Even a maths degree offers no refuge. Students at Edinburgh might be surprised to learn that the school of mathematics is committed to ‘decolonising’. The faculty claims that ‘the history of mathematics typically centres cisgendered, straight, white European men’ and recommends that students should take implicit bias tests.https://spectator.com/article/class-clowns-the-triumph-of-inanity-over-academia/
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/dr-alex-frankovitch
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/carolina-are

Jason Arday, former Cambridge University professor, found dead
Academic at centre of plagiarism row was found unresponsive in Battersea. Police said his death was not believed to be suspicious





The Cambridge Madrassa:

Suicide? Sounds like EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL like in the case of what happened with Sheryl Crow.

Peccary and his BS expertise in Politics.